High-End Audio Faces a Reckoning

JDC said:
My girlfriend's son is 30. He's the typical person his age listening to music on his phone, or in the car. But when he sits in my chair, he gets it. He's wowed. He asks me about tubes and such. I'll be leaving the system to him eventually. I'll need to teach him how to swap a tube... I think there's still a place for high-end gear in the future for the next generation.
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Mechnutt said:
My son is 34 and an audiophile. I got him started as a young teenager. He got all my hand me down gear including a Parasound A21 amp. Now he has a $6K Cary SS Integrated amp, Chord Questest DAC with an upgraded LPS, Rhythmik F12se sub, Wharfedale Evo 4.4 speakers (the weak link but will be upgraded soon) and about $4000 in vinyl gear.
He also likes the same music as I do:), but also turns me on to new music.
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"Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may not remember, involve me and I understand."

How neat; I'm sure there are some great memories being forged during these shared experiences.
 
Sean said:
"Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may not remember, involve me and I understand."

How neat; I'm sure there are some great memories being forged during these shared experiences.
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Yes we have made some nice memories. He and I listen to music all the time. We have also been to RMAF together and plan on going to the show in California this summer.
 
a.wayne said:
Measurements have everything to how something sounds , it cant say you will care for it when you apply your tastes , but for sure you can predict outcome after proper measurements especially on amps..
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Fair enough. Maybe we're both kind of right. Measurements have something to do with how something sounds, but certainly not everything. In my experience, ASR's measurements have very little correlation with how products that I have listened to sound.

Proper measurements says it all.

I've found that J.A.s measurements, in conjunction with how something sounds to his ears, are in general more likely to predict how it will sound to my ears than ASR's measurements are. This is a personal experience-based opinion. I don't claim that it's the Gospel.
 
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